Habitat Corridors Could Help Animals Adapt To Climate Change

By Craig ONeal [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Parks and natural areas can be like islands for wildlife, surrounded by rivers of roads or seas of development. And as the climate changes and temperatures rise, those islands are changing, too.

Plants and animals will need to move in order to keep living in the conditions they evolved to live in. And to do that, they’ll need to be able to island-hop to higher elevations or higher latitudes. Doable for birds, perhaps, or seeds that travel on the wind. Tougher for, say, a gopher tortoise.